Our Journal

A collection of our team’s best thoughts, stories and experiences.

The era of finance tech apps is here to stay for our good. Be it for investments, great credit cards, or financial planning, these apps are here to help and simplify the lives of consumers and how they make financial decisions. We at Startaê worked on a redesign exercise experimenting a great interface and interactions for a finance app.

Mario Gogh

Evino is an innovative online wine business in Brazil. Their vision is to make people fall in love with wines through good deals and discovery. In the exclusive online store, they offer a premium wine selection at the best prices.

Renato Contaifer

Communication is key for our team and we see feedback as an intrinsic part of it. In this post we share how we've created a simple and effective process where every member on our team can give and receive feedback from one another.

Jessica Honda

One of the greatest challenges of keeping the culture in a remote team is, as we're far away from each other, to sustain the connection and the energy of the team. This is how we have been making it happen.

Thiago Oliveira

We believe that we should always question whether our practices and processes are working. Even the most fundamental and obvious ones. In fact, especially those. This series of posts will document all our internal experiments to evolve how we relate to work.

Victoria Haidamus

We’ve talked about thinking globally and how we believe that the greatest people and opportunities are spread around the world, not only in our city. However, we think that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Victoria Haidamus

2016 was fantastic and it’s getting to an end. A lot happened. Most of the things were great, but we also faced some tough stuff. We wanted to share some of these milestones with you. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

Thiago Oliveira

Since I started working at Startaê, I became excited about having hackathons with the team. Here I'll talk about my first design-sprint experience at Startaê, where we designed and developed Cuckoo from scratch.

Mario Gogh

Details are more important than we think. In general, most of the people just ignore the details when they are designing digital products. Have you thought why you love a particular product? I'd say the reason is in the details.

Rômulo Machado

We have changed our logo recently and we already showed why we decided to do that. This post will talk about how we created, the successes and the pitfalls we had and everything we learned during the rebranding process.

Kande Bonfim

One of the main challenges in the career of a Frontend developer is to stay up to date with the latest technologies out there. As new frameworks are constantly released how can we choose what is worth learning ? We came up with two rules to help you make this decision!

Thiago Oliveira

On April 10th, Startaê celebrated its 4th anniversary. During these four years, Startaê has changed, grown and established its culture, but the logo has remained the same. We believe our logo has to speak for us. It has to represent who we are and the things we believe in. Our old logo was not doing that anymore; it had to evolve as we did.

Startaê

Where are your clients from? What's the location of people you work with? Are you limiting your relationships to the place you live in? For a company like ours who pushes the remote work philosophy, the location has never been a problem, but you need to make some decisions to make it happen. Here's what we did.

Rafael Torales

One of the hardest things to deal with in frontend development is when the project starts to become bigger, and the CSS organization begins to fall apart! How to handle with it? Is it possible to have my frontend code as modularized as the backend? Is it possible to code my CSS object oriented? BEM is a methodology that will help you break this paradigm. Enjoy!

Matheus Sales

Hey developer, have you been in a situation where you try to run a local project and suddenly it stopped working? That might have happened because you let your development environment get rusted. I'll share with you simple things you can do not to let that happen.

Jessica Honda

Every time I listen to or read about company culture it seems that it’s a hugely abstract concept and that it has nothing to do with the small things we do every day. And that bothers me a lot, it bothers me because they in fact are very connected. What we do every single day is what shapes our culture.